Optimise Blog - Technology: in plain English!

Gift Vouchers are a great way to help boost sales and increase footfall. However, many retailers shy away from Gift Vouchers because of the effort that is required and the reliance on key staff members. Without a computerised voucher system, proper procedures need to be in place and staff need to be well trained otherwise mistakes will happen. In conjunction with retailers who have operated vouchers manually for many years, we have developed a Gift Vouchers Module for the Optimise System which incorporates their best practices.
With this module you will want …

In response to your suggestions, we have created a new customer review program that saves you having to re-enter search criteria when enquiring on more than one customer. This is particularly useful when you are not sure which one of several similar customers you need to enquire on.
To access this program, from the main menu go to Accounts – Customer – Reports and choose Customer Review. After entering your criteria, a full screen of matches is shown with the option to drill in to the normal enquiry screen for a …

This VAT change for sales has now been run by everyone. Some may not have run the options to change VAT rates for suppliers and nominals yet. Our program has proven to save a lot of manual effort and there have been no significant issues relating to the VAT changes program.
Thank you for your patience over the New Year / start of January period.
When you need to change the VAT rates for suppliers and nominals, download the program again from here and run the last options (8 and 9). The …

Is your business facing an opportunity to expand? Are you wanting to add more user licences to the Optimise system so that you can handle the extra sales that are coming in? We have been getting a significant number of enquiries from our customers who want to increase the number of their Optimise system users by at least two additional licences. Now that the signs of economic recovery are blooming and you would be super charging your sales efforts, we would like to help you achieve those targets.
We have rolled …

When David Neave (Owner, Braidwood Building Contractors Ltd) called us two weeks ago, his website project was in a mess. A meeting with the team at Optimise Web and a week then on, his website is rescued, designed, and launched.

The cool and suave web guys mess it up
David had been approached by two website designers. One of them sold the idea of a website but never got on with delivering it and the second one kept emailing web jargons and didn’t go beyond corresponding. Once again, a bunch of wannabe web …

Optimise Solutions is exhibiting at the Manchester Furniture Show this year. The Manchester Furniture Show is the second largest furniture show in the UK and occupies 3 halls of furniture and interiors products. This year’s show opens on the 19th of July 2009 and runs until the 22nd of July 2009. Trade visitors are welcome between 9.30am and 5.00pm.
We are keen to meet with retail, trade, and contract businesses at the show and show you how our software and services can help Optimise your business while saving you money and …

We have been very busy over the last few months enhancing the Optimise products. See what’s new in the very latest version and get more out of the system. At the top of the Optimise menu, choose Help then Release Notes. For general help information, choose Help then Search Help.

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